Zimbabwean schools open for the first term with teachers threatening to engage in industrial action due to the government’s failure to pay 2015 bonuses.

Some Zimbabweans strongly back President Mugabe’s claims that the western sanctions are to blame for the country’s current socio-economic and political problems. Others blame Mr. Mugabe’s government of mismanagement.

Experts weigh in on the payment of annual bonuses of workers with indications that contractual issues largely determine such packages even when a nation and companies experience cash flow problems.

And For the seventh and final time of his presidency, Barack Obama will today stand before Congress and the American public to lay out his vision not only for his remaining months in office, but for the future of the United States.

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Today on LiveTalk our hosts of The Connection Ntungamili Nkomo and Tatenda Gumbo will be talking with listeners and experts about the opening of schools today and how children and parents are coping with paying school fees.